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According to some newspapers, there will be no death penalty for homosexuality in Uganda.

It seems like the law, which was causing discussions in Uganda for more than one year, won’t be realised.

Uganda is one of the most homo- adverse countrys in the world, and this new law would have legalised death penalty for gays and lesbians. Interior Minister, Kabakumba Masiko, told the news sender NTV, that the active law would care about every question in sexual rights. In Uganda, its still illegal to be homosexual.

It seems like Russia is doing one step after another to became a more gay friendly country. Now a court in St. Petersburg decided that the forbidden gay pride this year was legal.

It really looks like Russia is going to change their anti – homo attitude. This month, president Medveded discharged Moscows homophobic mayor Luzhkov, now, a few weeks later, the next big step is done in St. Petersburg.

A court in St. petersburg decided, that this years St. petersburg Gay Pride, which was forbidden by St. Petersburgs mayor, was legal. The illegal demonstration was crashed by the police and five parcipitants were arrested, also the chairperson of the St. Petersburg Gay Pride committee, Maria Efremenkova.

In 2009 the US Army discharged 428 gays and lesbians without cause; one third less than 2008. Nevertheless homosexueals are still discriminated by the military.

These statistics were published by the Servicemembers Legal Defence Network (SLDN). Since 1993 there is a law “dont ask; dont tell”, which implies that gays and lesbians are just worthy of purposing America, if they conceal their attitude. That leads to huge problems, when homosexuals got to make a secret of their sexuel orientation. But there is a rey of hope. The new president Barack Obama promised that they would get the same rights in army like their heterosexual comrades. This was confirmed by him in his spech a few weeks ago.

US President Barack Obama recently held a speech given to 3,000 activists of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest gay rights organization in the US, promising to improve gay rights.

In his speech, Obama made quite clear that he will abolish the discrimination of homosexual soldiers in the military (Don’t Ask Don’t Tell or DADT). Over the past 12 years, more than 10,000 men and women have been removed for same-sex attraction. He also said that he would try to remove a statute which defines marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman, known as the Defense of Marriage Act (DOM).

Nice words indeed, but it’s about time something happens. As of today it seems that Barack Obama has no priorities other than health care and the economy. Where is our “fierce advocate”?

The Jamaican reggae singer SIZZLA, known for his gay bashing lyrics, is planning a concert tour of Germany with stops in Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart and Wuppertal!

The 33 year old singer from northeastern Jamaica, whose birth-name is Miguel Collins, is known for gay bashing and the glorification of violence in his lyrics, which justify and promote the lynching of gays in Jamaica!

In 2007 SIZZLA had signed a declaration which stated “the right of people to live without violence be respected and maintained regardless of religion, sexual orientation, race, ethnic origin or gender”, disputed this, however, in Jamaica.

A demonstration has been planned by Smash Homophobia for November 26th, the date of the singer’s first performance, at  Berlin’s Kesselhaus at KulturBrauerei. The organizers of the concert have not, as yet, been willing to cancel the event.

The wave of resistance against SIZZLA’s appearance have reached the German Bundestag and will be addressed in Wednesday’s session, according to Volker Beck, Bundestag whip and a speaker for human rights.